Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Bertha Spafford Vester, 90, Jerusalem's Florence Nightingale, who cared for thousands of Christians, Moslems and Jews under four flags (Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli); in Jerusalem. Called "Ummuna" (mother of us all) by her Arab friends, the ex-Chicagoan (who moved to the Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best...
...Archbishop Chrysostomos, 87, patriotic ex-Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church and among the last of a generation of Greek soldier-priests; of internal hemorrhaging; in Athens. Son of a Greek oil merchant from Aydin, Turkey, Chrysostomos early became embroiled in Greek nationalist causes, and on several occasions escaped Turkish firing squads when foreign powers intervened. He was elected primate in 1962, only to be ousted last May by the military junta he swore into office a month earlier...
Untroubled by modern cancer research, many undergraduates smoked Murads, "the Turkish cigarette." Crisp Arrow collars did a brisk business around the Square at 20 cents each, two for 35 cents, three for 50 cents. Max Keezer proclaimed "Old clothes wanted--will call at your room day or evening at your pleasure...
...four books show discrepancies at critical points. For example, how did Philby, as the net closed around him, escape from Beirut to asylum in Russia? The authors of Conspiracy, a team of reporters from the London Sunday Times, suggest that he made it to the Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then he went to Turkey and walked across the border into Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife, Eleanor, who later joined him for a time in Moscow until he threw her over for the wife of his fellow defector, Donald Maclean, has a different...
Shaw, who will become professor of Turkish History at U.C.L.A. next year, expressed dissatisfaction with his position at Harvard. "The Middle East program is not developing as I had hoped. Here I have to teach language as well as history. At U.C.L.A. they have separate people to teach language," he said. Shaw has been at Harvard for ten years and is an associate of Dudley House...